All-thanks for the comments. Post up your flex head/hinge speeders if you like.
I must say I wish I had cleaned up a few of these, but cleaning tools can be a whole hobby in itself.
Very nice collection you got there.
I thought I had seen it all till the day that snap mom showed her collection and I just about fell out of my chair. I have maybe a dozen at most nothing to write home about.
Thanks Woody. I think I fell too, but landed in a puddle of drool.
Snapmom has an amazing collection.
Great collection, thanks for sharing. I'm surprised they are not more common. I see so many regular speed handles I usually don't buy them anymore.
Thanks. I'm surprised there aren't more of there. Maybe because so many regular speeders commonly came in sets. And those, there are so many in every brand possible. Unfortunately, at some point I started buying even the ugly examples when I see them cheap enough.
I think maybe there was a smaller market for this type in engine building and such. I saw a video on here where a student used his Snap On to really bring the speed in an engine building contest. I'll have to find that.
Wow ... that's quite a collection! I think I have one or two flex head speeder wrenches among the 50 or so in my collection. You have cornered the market!
Brian
Thanks,lol. My goal is to find every version. Post yours up if you like.
I like speeders too. Nice collection. There is a Snap on 4S . Two different versions, with completely different heads.
Thanks Snapmom. Your collection is great, and properly displayed as well. I thought I had seen an early version of these that I missed.
That's a great collection! I always enjoy seeing what others have collected, particularly when it's something a little different. Everyone has a ratchet collection, hard handle screwdrivers, etc. so it's interesting to see different tools once in awhile, like flex head speeders for instance. Not a tool that I've ever given much thought to, but I certainly appreciate your collection as well as the time and effort it took to assemble it. Thanks for adding the photos. Nice post!
Jim C.
Glad you like it, thanks. I enjoy when people get their collections together for us too.
Great collection 3bay. Your first patent pending example sure looks like MTF to me. I'd scour that sucker for the tiny MTF stamp.
Twertsy, thanks. Have looked that ****** over many times hoping to find something, and definitely no other markings. I doubt it wore off, just poorly stamped and barely stamped to begin with. Not much to go on with just the PAT PNDG mark.
MTF is quite possible. I had not considered them. I compared it to many old breaker bars online too, with no definitive answer. At first I thought pre-Plomb L.A., or other brand from out West, but they never had a head like that. That and the handle could be the key. Do you have an old MTF cat.?
The other unmarked one too, hard to pin it as one brand or another.
I have to say you have a most awesome collection there.
For myself, I have one that I just recently bought. I was inspired to get it when I
saw one being used in an old 1930's movie.
Thanks. Feel free to post it up. What movie? I'd love to see that.
Terrific and unusual "guilty pleasure" collection, 3bay, and thanks for sharing it!
It's neat to see these kinds of quirky, esoteric, multiples collections where brand and timeframe are secondary and tertiary to the type of tool, and especially when it's not a common tool.
It also has the added benefit of mystifying and/or infuriating the types of guys I have run into on the General Tools Discussion board, and occasionally on this board (counter-intuitively!), who think that tools only have a utilitarian value, and I never get tired of seeing those kinds of guys mystified or infuriated.
Are you interested in seeing a different Blackhawk? I believe I have one with a rotating doorknob handle. I don't want to muck up your thread with other photos if you wanted to keep it organized to your stuff.
Thanks Lugz, part of that made me laugh. Some would categorize me as a hoarder. At least these I can say are a collection.
Is your speeder the kind with a built in flex socket? If it's another one like these, I have not seen it. Feel free to post it up.
I have only found one Flex Head Speeder and that one came from an estate sale in the beginning of April. Here it is with some other Plomb items.
-Don
Nice, thanks for sharing Don.
I noticed that in the Plomb thread. Plomb and Snap On are the brands of these most often seen, and probably the best made. I'm sure some of the other brands added to their lineup to compete.
Maybe that helped to kick off my collection. 
